Quotes About Present

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Le seul avenir de l'avenir est de devenir un passé. Quand l'avenir se jette sur nous, il a tellement hâte de se changer en passé qu'il ne prend que pour un instant, pour un soupir, pour un clin d'œil, pour un éclair la forme fragile du présent. On pourrait presque soutenir que le temps n'a qu'une idée: sauter l'étape du présent.

Une des clés évidentes et secrètes de ce monde où nous vivons est qu'il passe son temps dans un éternel présent toujours en train de s'évanouir. Entre un avenir qui n'existe pas encore et un passé qui n'existe déjà plus se glisse une pure abstraction, une sorte de rêve impossible. C'est cette absence haletante que nous appelons le présent. Personne n'a jamais vécu ailleurs que sur cette frontière vacillante entre le passé et l'avenir.

Totul, pretutindeni ?i întotdeauna, nu este niciodat? alceva decât timp.

N-am auzit niciodat? pe cineva vorbindu-ne despre trecut f?r? s? vorbeasc? ?i despre moarte. Iar viitorul de asemenea, nu ne vorbe?te decât de moarte. Nu ne r?mâne decât prezentul pentru a încerca, oarecum în zadar, s? ?inem moartea la respect. Via?a nu-i niciodat? nimic altceva decât o lung? retragere în fa?a mor?ii.

Les faibles tirent une satisfaction morose à comparer leur infortune présente avec leur bonheur passé, et tentent ainsi de se prouver à eux-mêmes que leur vie n'a pas été manquée tout entière. (Troisième partie, ch. VI)

When we live in memory we cut ourselves off from the universe, we live in isolation. This is the root of all suffering.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Hell--or Heaven--is here, now, inside.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now . Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant...I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

présent, la version des événements sans jamais pouvoir affirmer que celle-ci est définitive.

He considered each and every second as if he'd never encountered one before, as if the time it kept was a permanent surprise.

He was the least scary adult present, besides being English and therefore fascinating.

History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not.

One thing I've learned, Father--that in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

in this life it's best to keep the then and the now and the what's-to-be as close together in your thoughts as you can. It's when you let gaps creep in, when you separate out the intervals and dwell on them, that you can't bear the sorrow.

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

Maybe the meaning of your life is what your life means to you now. It's hard to understand that time doesn't exist because we have such a clear experience of past, present and future, but we don't really experience past and future, only present. Past and future are just ideas in the present. This means that there is only now, but what is now? We can't say what now is because there is no not-now. It's always now. There is only now.